iPhone apps for September
My regular list of recommended applications for iPhone that I’ve acquired over the month. In other news, I’m now an iPad owner so from here on the monthly post will feature those apps too. This month I’ve included two that have been around for a while that I’m sure most of you already have but I have only just really started to make use of.
Instapaper helps out with the huge amount of content you encounter on the web every day that you’d like to read but don’t have time to at that particular moment. You add a special bookmark to the browser on your computer, and every time you find a page you’d like to read later you click it.
Instapaper saves all these links for you, and the iPhone app presents these articles to you to read at a more convenient time. Really simple idea, but surprisingly useful. Makes those dead little bits of waiting time at stations/before meetings a little bit more productive.
The other neat little thing about the app I like is the tilt to scroll option. Work your way through articles just by tilting the phone.
Kind of on a similar theme actually, Dropbox helps you access your files wherever you are, whatever platform you are using. You install the app onto your computer(s) and sign up for an account with them. What you end up with is a shared folder on your desktop, you drop a file into it and it syncs to their servers and is accessible from any other machine you install it on. You can also access your dropbox via their website, meaning you can get to these files anywhere with an Internet connection. 2Gb of space for free, more than that and you pay.
I’ve got fairly organised recently in terms of making sure I have what I need everywhere (lots of Google Docs basically), but this has proved useful in distributing a couple of things recently. It’s also quite a nice way to safe store a few emergency things (backup presentations, templates, etc) that could help me out if things go really bad out on a job.
The iPhone app functions pretty much as you would expect. Open it up and you can access all the files in your dropbox. Works very well for files that the iPhone can handle. The other neat little iPhone function that I’m finding I use is the ability to email out these files. Good for quickly sharing that presentation.
And a little maths game to finish. Slice it! is one of those simple little ideas that proves really addictive. The game just asks you to evenly cut up shapes. It gives you a square and the ability to make 2 slices- you have to divide it into 4 equal parts. Levels get harder as you go, and I’m currently stuck attempting to slice these 2 triangles into 8 equal pieces using 4 slices…. Knew I should have concentrated a little harder in geometry lessons.
Image source- Instapaper. CC licensed on Flickr by Smoking Apples
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